On the plus side we have homes, TVs, food, Brownies and breakdancing. On the minus side, racists and bad weather

When he came to the UK from Zimbabwe at the age of 11, Marshal had a vivid
image of what life here would be like. He pictured flash cars, skyscraper
buildings, fancy shops, a sparkling land of plenty where everyone was
wealthy. “I thought ‘I’m going to be rich ... I’m going to be living the
life’, ” he says. What he got was a council house in North Shields,
Tyneside, one of Britain’s highest unemployment areas, and a massive shock
at how cold it was.

But today, seven years on, he still considers himself privileged. Despite
living in a relatively impoverished